"The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others." – bell hooks Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations 🌸🌸🌸 ❤️🖤💚 #BlackHistoryMonth

Still one of my favorite books 📚

Oh, I like her 😊

Currently watching Star Trek: DS9 Season 4, Episode 3 (The Visitor), and, wow...I really miss my dad 😢

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On honor of her heavenly birthday🌸🌸🌸 "I must battle these forces of discrimination, wherever they appear to destroy me. And when they appear to destroy me, it will not be long before they appear to destroy you.” ~ Audre Lorde ❤️🖤💚

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donatelife.net/tribute/mich... I am grateful to my department for making a donation to "Donate Life America," in honor of my dad. In 2007, my dad (a type 1 diabetic) recived a kidney/pancreas transplant that save his life at two years on dialysis. His transplant gave us another 18 years with him. 🌸

NO. WEDNESDAY. FORMED. AGAINST. US. SHALL. PROSPER!!!!!!

"As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer." ~ Toni Morrison (Happy Heavenly Birthday) 🌸🌸🌸 ❤️🖤💚 #BlackHistoryMonth

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I really enjoy it when I have grad students guest lecture in my undergrad classes. I always learn something from them, and my students like the change of pace...and this semester as I navigate my dad's death and new responsibilities, I appreciate it that much more 🌸🌸🌸

❤️🖤💚 A gift.

I often think about the fact that if the FBI et al had not killed Fred Hampton, he would be 78 today. Younger than Jesse Jackson was. Must have felt strange to outlive many of your contemporaries by decades.

"Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws." ~ Huey P. Newton, To Die for the People (Happy Heavenly Birthday) ❤️🖤💚

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As of this morning, only one of the men who was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel that fateful evening is still living. Since Brother Jesse passed at 84 this morning.

"No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams." ~ Jesse Jackson ❤️🖤💚

I’ve watched a very smart child try to encode what chaptgpt thinks is “human” so that her class assignments don’t get flagged for plagiarism. I’ve heard expert professionals admit to self-editing so they don’t “sound” like an llm. This is the kind of cultural flattening that accelerates fascism.

I'll admit that the way that Tubman is taught is often juvenile. Sooooo many children's books about her over the years. But it's inexcusable for some to believe that she was fictional or "not real."

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"Toni Morrison is stratospheric. The legend of her seems to speak for itself. The novels, the Nobel, the lectures, the former students, the decades of university syllabuses (although still not enough)..." A read.

“Within each one of us there is some piece of humanness that knows we are not being served by the machine which orchestrates crisis after crisis and is grinding all our futures into dust.” —Audre Lorde 🌸🌸🌸 ❤️🖤💚

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How often does he have to rephrase how he thinks whites are the superior race & everybody else needs to be subjugated or wiped out for something to happen?

The Love We See in Minneapolis Isn’t Exceptiona. It’s How We Survive Together truthout.org/articles/the...

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There is so much in this piece. The misuse of science, the fact that Epstein was proud of being illiterate, Epstein's ranch in New Mexico and the horrible things that occured there, and of course, the creation of a mostly men's club where Epstein funded intellectuals who would push his agenda.

A 🧵to note.

"I'm too old for this imperial shit" - Black Skin, White Masks

“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” – Ella Fitzgerald 🌸🌸🌸 ❤️🖤💚

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“All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm’s way.” ~ bell hooks 🌸🌸🌸

"The light of love is always in us, no matter how cold the flame. It is always present, waiting for the spark to ignite, waiting for the heart to awaken.” bell hooks 🌸🌸🌸

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Diabolical.

"I think that many people have forgotten that, if knowledge is to have any meaning, if it is to be useful, it should have an impact in the world.” ~Angela Davis ❤️🖤💚 #BlackHistoryMonth ❤️🖤💚

Interesting...

"Across 24 tracks and 101 minutes, The Fall Off is full of technical proficiency, raw lyrical skill, citation, interpolation and sampling, and it attempts nothing less than to embody a half-century of hip-hop." ~ @aydeethegreat.bsky.social ❤️🖤💚

"In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed... It means facing a system that does not lend its self to your needs and devising means by which you change that system." ~Ella Baker♥️🖤💚

Insanity...

Dear Blueskies, question: could you recommend a recent-ish, peer reviewed study on implicit/unconscious bias in faculty hiring? I know the classics, but I am wondering what new(ish) research is out there that could be used in a workshop setting. Thank you very much! #AcademicSky #EduSky 🗃️

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Misogynior in action for sure. 😡😡

"When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when anti-racism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other, and both interests lose." - Kimberlé Crenshaw ❤️🖤💚 #BlackHistoryMonth

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Thank you @blackedusky.bsky.social for the shout out. #BlackHistoryMonth ❤️🖤💚